[12415] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Kent)
Mon Sep 15 16:47:04 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 13:33:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Kent <mark@mainstreet.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <341D94E4.39D1@acrux.net> (message from Rob Barron on Mon, 15 Sep
1997 15:04:52 -0500)
Rob Barron <rbarron@acrux.net> wrote:
>> A good way to visualize this is to imagine a long pipe with an
>> inside diameter just large enough to hold a ping pong ball
Those of you who want the Internet described in terms of elementary
particles might also be interested in a bit of detail left off
by Rob Barron:
A ping pong ball is 37.2mm to 38.2mm in diameter and
weighs 2.40 to 2.53 grams.
So a 40mm inside diameter seems to be called for.
-mark
